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The Bird Woman's husband passed away in March.  

The Bird Woman doesn't talk about him much.

The grand-kids talk about how he was a good grandpa.

But mostly people talk about how he never spent money.

I didn't spend much time around him, but every time I hear people say he didn't like to spend money I cringe inside.

He was frugal.  If he could fix it or make do without, he did.

But he invested his money in people.

He bought the calves from the boy down the road.

He hired the man who was a good man, but whose haying equipment broke down because it was old or borrowed.

He paid young men to come work on his farm and taught them to be men.

He shared the farm and his wisdom and his love of God.

He was not stingy.  

He just put his money where it mattered.